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Study Into Alternative (Biobased) Polar Aprotic Solvents Study into alternative (biobased) polar aprotic solvents Dr. Daan S. van Es Report 1742 Colophon Title Study into alternative (biobased) polar aprotic solvents Author(s) Dr. Daan S. van Es Number 1742 ISBN-number - Date of publication November 20th, 2017 Version End version Confidentiality yes OPD code - Approved by Dr. J. van Haveren Review Internal Name reviewer - Sponsor Ministry of Infrastructure and the Environment Client National Institute for Public Health and the Environment (RIVM) Wageningen Food & Biobased Research P.O. Box 17 NL-6700 AA Wageningen Tel: +31 (0)317 480 084 E-mail: [email protected] Internet: www.wur.nl/foodandbiobased-research © Wageningen Food & Biobased Research, institute within the legal entity Stichting Wageningen Research All rights reserved. No part of this publication may be reproduced, stored in a retrieval system of any nature, or transmitted, in any form or by any means, electronic, mechanical, photocopying, recording or otherwise, without the prior permission of the publisher. The publisher does not accept any liability for inaccuracies in this report. 2 © Wageningen Food & Biobased Research, institute within the legal entity Stichting Wageningen Research Executive Summary This report is the second part of the project ‘Verkenning aprotische oplosmiddelen’. The goal of this project, which is a collaboration between Wageningen Food and Biobased Research (WFBR) and the National Institute for Public Health and the Environment (RIVM), is to identify new biobased alternatives to the currently disputed polar aprotic solvents (PAS) NMP, DMAc and DMF, which are suspected to be reprotoxic. The first objective of this desk study is to present an overview of both emerging and existing biobased chemicals (and materials), and to identify potential (side) streams of ‘new’ biobased chemicals that will (need to) be valorised in the near future. The description ‘new’ biobased chemicals relates to the fact that these substances are not (yet) commercially available in significant quantities, despite the fact that many of them have been known for more than a century. For example, substances like ethanol, lactic acid and citric acid are not considered new as they have already been produced by industrial scale fermentation for a long time. Furthermore, chemicals like bio succinic acid are not considered new, as they are currently still mostly produced from petrochemical feedstocks. Examples of substances that are considered as new in this study are for instance furandicarboxylic acid, levulinic acid and itaconic acid. While the information thus obtained is already interesting by itself from a regulatory perspective, the second objective of this study is to evaluate the replacement potential of these new biobased substances with regard to the PAS NMP, DMAc and DMF. Since many biobased chemicals are (highly) polar, the increasing availability of ‘new’ substances with unique chemical structures and properties could be the solution to finding safe alternatives to disputed PAS. For most of the existing and emerging biobased product streams ‘new’ substances have been identified, which has resulted in a list of substances (or classes of substances) that are likely to reach a significant production volume in the coming decades. This list has been prioritised according to criteria like feedstock availability, level of (industrial) development, whether or not a substance is already commercially produced, and its potential as alternative polar aprotic solvent. Based on these criteria, nineteen substances and substance classes have been identified as potential alternatives for the currently disputed PAS. Toxicological analysis should give more insight into the feasibility of these substances as safe alternatives for the currently disputed polar aprotic solvents. Next, the technical and economic feasibility should be determined for these substances in various key applications by the relevant stakeholders (industry, knowledge institutes, government). This also implies that synthesis and production of substances that are not yet readily available should be developed further. Due to the rather diffuse nature of the solvents market, with both many (potential) producers and end- © Wageningen Food & Biobased Research, institute within the legal entity Stichting Wageningen Research 3 users, as well as a myriad of applications, a proactive role of the government in stimulating and facilitating the development of these new biobased solvents and chemicals is strongly advised. Next to e.g. matchmaking events and ‘green deals’, a specific R&D program involving a broad number of stakeholders, (potential) solvent producers and users, and knowledge institutes (comparable to e.g. the Biobased Performance Materials program) is recommended in order to accelerate the introduction and acceptance of new, safe biobased solvents. 4 © Wageningen Food & Biobased Research, institute within the legal entity Stichting Wageningen Research Content Executive Summary 3 1 Introduction 6 2 Methods & Terminology 8 3 Results & Discussion 10 3.1 Biobased resources and chemicals 10 3.2 Glucose derived acids 11 3.3 Sugar derived alcohols 13 3.4 Hexose derived furanics and aromatics 15 3.5 Pentose derived furanics and aromatics 18 3.6 Uronic acids and derivatives 20 3.7 Glycerol and oleochemicals 21 3.8 Lignin derived chemicals 24 3.9 Terpenes and derivatives 26 3.10 Miscellaneous 27 3.11 Comparison with DOE list of top value added chemicals from biomass. 28 4 Significance for replacement of polar aprotic solvents (PAS) 31 5 Conclusions 36 6 Results of external survey 37 Acknowledgements 39 References 40 © Wageningen Food & Biobased Research, institute within the legal entity Stichting Wageningen Research 5 1 Introduction In 2014 Wageningen Food & Biobased Research conducted a quick-scan for the Dutch National Institute for Public Health and the Environment (RIVM) with the aim to identify potential biobased alternatives to substances of very high concern (SVHC). The report concluded that the substance class of polar aprotic solvents (PAS) was of special interest. These solvents, more specifically NMP (N-methyl pyrolidone), DMAc (dimethylacetamide) and DMF (dimethylformamide), are suspected reprotoxic and are under increasing regulatory pressure. While biobased chemicals offer potential alternatives (given the highly polar character of many biobased feedstocks like carbohydrates), there were also concerns that short term restriction of the use of NMP, DMF and DMAc could be prohibitive to the development of a biobased economy. Since most biobased feedstocks and chemicals contain significantly more oxygen (and water) than their petrochemical counterparts, common industrial petrochemical processes based on distillation and high temperature gas phase reactions are not feasible, due to too high boiling points and thermal instability. Hence, more often solvents need to be used for biomass pretreatment and downstream chemical conversions. Whereas water and alcohols are highly preferred from an environmental and safety point of view, also the use of PAS is often required. Hence, in the first part of the project ‘Verkenning aprotische oplosmiddelen’ emphasis was placed on identifying whether short term restrictions in the use of NMP, DMF and DMAc would have detrimental effects on the development of biomass pretreatment processes. The conclusions from this first part were that this is not the case, due to the large scale of these processes and the (too) high costs associated with the use of non-aqueous solvents. The goal of the second part of the project is to identify new biobased alternatives to the currently disputed PAS by means of a desk study. The first objective of this desk study is to present an overview of both emerging and existing biobased chemicals (and materials), and to identify potential (side) streams of ‘new’ biobased chemicals that will (need to) be valorised in the near future. The description ‘new’ biobased chemicals relates to the fact that these substances are not (yet) commercially available in significant quantities, despite the fact that many of them have been known for more than a century. For example, substances like ethanol, lactic acid and citric acid are not considered new as they are already produced by industrial scale fermentation for a long time. Furthermore, chemicals like bio-succinic acid are not considered new, as they are currently still mostly produced from petrochemical feedstocks. Examples of substances that are considered as new in this study are for instance furandicarboxylic acid (FDCA), levulinic acid and itaconic acid. Another reason to focus on new biobased solvents is that most of the existing biobased solvents (unique or drop-in) such as ethanol, ethyl acetate, or ethyl lactate are unsuitable as functional alternatives to NMP, DMAc and DMF in the majority of their applications. 6 © Wageningen Food & Biobased Research, institute within the legal entity Stichting Wageningen Research The second objective of this study is to evaluate the replacement potential of these new biobased substances with regard to NMP, DMAc and DMF. Since many biobased chemicals are (highly) polar, the increasing availability of ‘new’ substances with unique chemical structures and properties could be the solution to finding safe alternatives to disputed PAS. © Wageningen Food & Biobased Research, institute within the legal entity Stichting Wageningen Research 7 2 Methods & Terminology For this report use has been made of several literature search
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